Carolina QuotesIn a world where young blacks, especially, are bombarded with claims that they are being unfairly targeted by police, and where a general attitude of belligerence is being promoted literally in word and song, it is hard not to wonder whether some people's responses to policemen do not have something to do with the policemen's responses to them. Neither the police nor people in any other occupation always do what is right but automatic belligerence is not the answer.
Thomas Sowell Carolinian
Source
"Driving While Black" (31 October 2007), Jewish World Review.
- year
- 2007
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